Pawnshops and Carousels

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A/N: So this chapter is gonna be a shorter one. But it's filled with super cute things. Don't forget to leave a review and I'll see you guys next Sunday!

Chapter 8

Bobby J: My car got broken into. I mean, I know I work in a bad area, but like… come on, all they got was loose change and a car charger. Was it worth it? Really? Was it really worth it to turn my car upside down for that? Let's hope that they show up here, cause I'd love to catch these guys and show them what happens when you fuck with Detroiters.

A car crashes in the parking lot and we all rush out.

We rush out because we want to make sure that the people who crashed their cars are okay, but we're also rushing out because we had just apprehended a girl trying to steal from the cars in our parking lot and they're saying that one of the cars was in the process of being stolen when it crashed.

I'm ready to apprehend another car thief. I'm ready to put this behind me. I am not ready to see a familiar silver car, tee-boned by a black SUV's back bumper.

"Seth… is that… is that Sabrina's car?"

I know it's hers before Ashley even bothers to ask me about it because as soon as I recognized the car, I'm sprinting towards it calling her name.

I let the guards deal with the car thief, all I care about is Sabrina. But when I get to he driver's side door, it's locked and she's just lying there in the driver's seat. I pound on the glass and call her name and though it rouses her she doesn't seem able to focus on anything. She's looking back and forth from the carnage to me. I can see a trickle of blood dripping slowly down over her eyes, and suddenly I'm more than frantic to get her out of that car, in fact I'm surprised I haven't broken the handle off her door from jerking it so hard.

"Sabrina open the door! Sabrina… Sabrina open the damn door!"

She moves, thank god, but it's not good. She just stares at me, blinking her eyes slowly. She doesn't understand what I'm saying, she doesn't open the door. I turn to the frantic faces around me, I think I might cry, I just want her out of the car and in my arms.

"She won't open the door. What do we do?" I ask.

My sister and my father each try rapping on the window as I hadn't just tried that. And just like when I tired it my Sabrina's head is just lolling from side to side. Oh god, please, please don't let her die in this car in front of me.

"We have to get her out of there."

"We'll wait for the jaws of life…"

"We don't have time for that dad!" I shout. Running and hand through my hair.

"Break the window then!" Ashley shouts, shoving me to get my attention as I bang on the window just to try and keep Sabrina awake.

"So, the glass can cut her up? Yeah. Smart Ashley!"

"Well you don't know what to do either, so stop YELLING AT ME!"

I go to shout at her again when Rich decides he's done with us. He goes around to the passenger side, the side of the car that got hit and with one quick hit breaks the splintered passenger side window and unlocks the doors for me. Once they're unlocked, I have the door open and I'm unbuckling her and then pulling her from the car.

Her eyes are on me but they still won't focus. I clutch her to my chest try to determine if she's okay and how bad the damage is. I press my hand to the side of her head that is bleeding, feeling the pounding and the warm, wet stickiness under my fingers. But she's breathing, and her heart is beating and that helps calm me down but only barely.

I have her cradled in my arms and it must be too tightly because I can hear Ashley and my dad asking me to let her go, but I can't, I can't because I'm afraid and I've just sort of locked up.

"Seth?"

It's the first word she's said since the accident and it overjoys me to know that it's my name. It's me she's asking for.

"Yeah, Sabrina… It's okay. You've been in an accident. I need to know where else you are hurt? Is it just your head? Are you okay? Reenie talk to me, talk to me."

And then she pulls my face down to hers and kisses me.

Ashley: Holy shit. Did she just kiss my brother?

Rich: Ah fuck us. If we thought he was bad now, it's going to be worse after this.

Les: Yes! I knew it! I knew if I put them together the sparks would fly.

Seth: Good god this has to be some sort of sick nightmare but I never want it to end.

I had tossed my dad her keys and told him to take her car to a garage where a buddy of mine could fix up her car for her and then I was in the back of the ambulance with her and her cloudy green eyes. She got the sense knocked out of her, I could tell, because she was smiling at me and holding my hand. And talking about a really bad dream she had where her and I had broken up.

I didn't have the heart to tell her that it wasn't a dream. I wanted to hold onto this too because as soon as she remembers we broke up everything's going to go back to the way things were before. And for right now, even if it is just in her own head, she was my girlfriend again.

The doctors took her for examination, they let me sit with her and hold her hand. She was quiet and subdued and just wanted to rest her head on my shoulder and rest but they won't let me let her sleep.

They had to give her stitches and while they were doing that, they told me what was wrong with her. She had a concussion and what was probably a retrograde or selective amnesia. They wanted her to stay overnight to make sure that she was okay and since I was such a "doting boyfriend" and Sabrina got extremely upset whenever I tried to leave, they let me stay with her. They figured sooner rather than later, once her head cleared, all the symptoms would fade, which meant she'd remember that we broke up.

But I did not pass up the opportunity to sleep with Sabrina curled up to me again. Problem was as soon as she woke up whatever had clouded her memory had officially and properly cleared up, just like the doctor said it would.

"Seth… what are you… why are you… where am I?" she cries sitting up, yelping and then pressing a hand to her head. "What the hell happened? Was I in a…"

"Car accident? Yeah, yes you were," I tell her. "You uh… hit your head pretty hard. You have three stitches and a concussion. You were pretty out of it yesterday… you uh…"

Her hands fly to her face in horror. "Oh my god I thought we were still dating. Oh… no! I made you stay here didn't I… oh god… oh Seth I'm so sorry."

I stare at her and realize that telling her, right at this moment when she was just coming back to the real world, that last night was the best night of my life… aside from worrying about the state of her health, is not going to help her. It would probably make things worse.

Plus it kills me to hear her talking about yesterday like it means nothing, that it was nothing but a mix-up and otherwise wouldn't have happened if she had been in a proper state of mind. Which you know, it was a mix up, but that didn't mean I wanted hear her talk about it like that.

"It's fine Reen… Sabrina. It's fine. I'm just glad you're okay. Did you want me to uh… I mean I probably should have notified him last night but do you want me to call your… b… your b… "

"Oh no. no. it's okay. I can call him later," she says quickly which is great because I couldn't bring myself to even say the word boyfriend let alone offer to call him for her. "Thank you though… do you need to uhm… do you need to go home?"

Hope flares up in my chest and try to not show it on my face. Was she asking me to stay? Cause I will, in a heartbeat, if she wants me to stay. "No. Would you like me to stay? Are you asking me to stay?"

"Well I mean, I don't want to keep you… don't you need to go to work?"

"If you want me to stay Sabrina tell me and I'll stay."

I fold my arms over my chest as she glances back her lips twitching back and forth as she thinks. "I… I'd like you to stay… uhm… if you can that is… I don't want you to…"

"Kay, just shut up and lie back down," I say tugging her back down to the bed. I shift out of the bed so she can be more comfortable. "I'll uh… I'll get you a coke, you still like those, right?"

"Coke for breakfast?"

"A sugar free one," I say with a smirk which wins me a sheepish smile. "I'll see what has bacon in the caff too, bring it up for you. Okay?"

As I'm leaving I hear her call: "Thanks Seth." And my grin widens and there's a skip in my step. I think Sabrina and I just turned a corner. I'm one step closer to winning her back.